Repost: Face Split Diving Accident Video

People are flooding in from all over the world to see this old post of mine from 13 years ago! I’m also getting swamped with requests from translators. If you are thinking about watching this video and have not seen it yet, let me warn you. It’s really bad. I was traumatized for almost a week after I saw it, and usually nothing much affects me at all. I thought I was unshockable. I guess not. Don’t come complaining to me if you’re traumatized or upset after watching this. Remember that I warned you ahead of time.

For those of you who are daring and think you can handle it, go ahead and dive right in, so to speak. It’s freaky as Hell though. I’m warning you.

The video itself is now stored on my old Blogspot site. I will keep it there until I transfer it over here. Click here to watch the actual video.

I am looking for translators to translate this post into Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Maltese, Romanian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian, Swedish, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese and Wolof. Email me if you are interested.

This post has been translated into:

French: Visage Fendu dans Accident de Plongeon (en Français).

Portuguese: as Video Acidente de Mergulho Rostro Dividida Ao Meio (em Português )

Spanish: Video Accidente de Clavadista con Cara Partida (en Español)

Finnish: Sukellusonnettomuus (on Suomen)

Serbo-Croatian: Ronilačkih Nezgoda Sa Licem Podijeljen U Dva (u Srpsko-hrvatski )

Italian: as Incidente Di Tuffo Che Divide Il Viso In Due (traduzione in Italiano).

Bad reactions to the video including nausea, vomiting, dry heaves, paleness, shivering, shaking, spinal chills, headache, rapid heartbeat, nightmares, inability to stop thinking of the video and pain in the face, have been reported. Adverse reactions have lasted up to three days. Please exercise caution in viewing the video.

This is one of the latest viral videos going around. It actually appeared on the Net around the third week of July 2009, but it only started going viral in a huge way around the second week of September 2009. It first appeared on Arabic and Turkish sites, and finally found its way around the Net. In general, it never has a name.

It’s just referred to by some description of the event like, Horrible Diving Accident, Bridge Fail, Worst Diving Accident, Horrific Diving AccidentAwesome Diving Accident, Disgusting Diving Accident, Jump Accident, Cellphone Horrific Diving Accident , and Diving Accident. I named it Dive Fail since I could not think of anything better. Later I changed the name to Face Split Diving Accident.

There’s really no “violence” in this video. It’s just a video of a horrible accident.

A teenager, a 16 year old boy, dives off the seaside promenade in Beirut, Lebanon and slips before the dive. The slip causes him to miss the ocean and instead hit the concrete slab below where fishermen fish. He hits the concrete face first, then goes into the ocean. In a short while, the ocean for yards around has turned red with blood. There are people in the water and boats trying to help the guy, and girls are screaming all over the place.

The scene then shifts to a hospital where the poor guy is being overseen by a team of doctors and nurses. His face has been split clear in two down the middle vertically!

He is still alive, conscious, and, and his tongue is still moving around. He appears terrified. A couple of times, the doctor takes the sides of his face and pushes them together to make a whole face again. The doctor says, “Where do I begin?” a few times in Arabic. We know this is an operating room in Lebanon because the doctors and nurses are speaking Lebanese Arabic.

People are wondering how he could survive such an injury. The front part of his brain may have been injured, but others are saying that it appears to be intact. At any rate, basic things like breathing are done by the brain stem. The brain stem appears to be intact. People are also wondering about pain. The brain has no pain receptors. On the other hand, the damage to his face must be very painful.

There are a lot of rumors saying that this video is fake, but apparently it is a real video. We know this because people in Lebanon are reporting it. Some had friends who were at the Promenade that day, others said it was reported in the Lebanese press, and others say that they were aware of stories on the street about the video. There is an article in Arabic from the Lebanese press online proving that this event occurred, but it’s in the archives, and looking through the archives costs money.

This event occurred in Beirut in the second week of June 2009. The teenager and his brother were showing off their diving skills by diving off the Manara Promenade ( supposedly proves that this video is fake. In the other video, the hospital footage is said to be of a failed 9mm suicide. However, no way can a 9mm do that kind of damage to your face. Furthermore, in a longer video version of the ER scene, the two doctors are discussing in Lebanese Arabic how he landed “on a rock” when he jumped into the water. This dialogue would not exist in a gun suicide video.

In addition, some are saying that the victim in the failed gun suicide video had a similar injury that differed from this one in certain ways; in particular, this one has a dichotomy of the jaw at the chin, and the other did not.

There are claims that instead of a 9mm failed suicide, this is a shotgun failed suicide. However, there are many photos of shotgun suicides on the Web, for instance, at Rotten.com. In general, shotgun failed suicides do not neatly clove one’s face in two in the way that this injury did. If it’s really a failed gun suicide, why are they speaking Lebanese Arabic just like they are speaking during the dive accident?

Sources in Lebanon who were there at the promenade and witnessed the dive accident claim that the word on the street in Lebanon is that the second half was shot in the hospital and is footage of aftermath of the diving accident. In addition, the young man in the hospital at the end is wearing swim trunks, just as the diver wore. What are the chances that a video of a failed shotgun suicide by a young man wearing a bathing suit occurred and was filmed in Lebanon around the same time of this accident?

Many people have questioned the nature of the wound. It does not seem to be possible to hit a concrete slab and split your face vertically like he did. However, if you look at the dive footage, there is steel casing around the concrete slab that he hits. The concrete slab has worn away and a lot of the steel casing is exposed. The steel casing runs parallel to the shoreline. Even then, hitting the steel casing would seem to be a horizontal hit.

However, look at the way that the boy is flailing wildly in the air. In his dive, he is twisting and turning like the wind. With such a flailing dive and while probably curving to try to avoid the concrete, it’s possible for him to him to turn the 90 degrees he needs to turn to hit the sharp edge of the steel casing vertically instead of horizontally, which would result in the injury we see later.

There is another theory suggesting that the hospital footage is not even real – it’s faked using special effects. I find this dubious. Looking at the cheap quality of the video especially and the fact that faking something like this is the terrain of motion picture studios with huge budgets, I think it is clear that the guy in the hospital suit is not “some rubber thing.” One problem is that the hospital guy is quite pale, while the jumper is a typical brown-skinned Arab. This is possible if the diver lost a lot of blood.

Another suggestion, perhaps not as odd as it sounds, is that he is already dead on the ER table. The body can make a few involuntary movements after death, there are such things as death rattles, and the breathing is said to have been artificially forced by the tube. But why tube a dead man? And if you look closely, you can see that his tongue is moving, and his chest is going up and down. He appears to be gasping for breath. A funeral director on the Web felt that he was still very much alive. She also said gun suicide injuries never cleave the head so perfectly. Only accidents can do that.

At the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter if the video is “fake” or not, because it isn’t. When we watch a scary Hollywood movie, do we all scream, “Fake!”? Of course not. What matters is if a movie is scary. And this video is downright terrifying.  It’s scary like Saw or Hostel is scary. At the end of the day, that’s all that matters.

There is something really creepy about this video that I can’t quite put a finger on.

From the very amateurish trilingual warning at the beginning (Arabic, French and English, suggesting once again it was made in Lebanon) to the horrible screams after he hits, to the blood-red ocean spreading in a large area around the 20-30 people gathered in the water to help him, to the absolutely terrifying scene in the hospital where the poor kid, incredibly, has a face split clear in two. The labored, terrified breathing of the victim combined with what appears to be a the look of horror on what’s left of his face is something that really stays with you.

Throughout the video, there is some weird, cheesy, hard to describe instrumental music going in the background that for some strange reason that really adds to the fear. This music is actually the soundtrack to a medical show on US TV that may or may not be on anymore. It’s either the soundtrack to ER or Chicago Hope. The amateurish cellphone footage that jumps around jerkily also in some way makes the video even scarier. I think maybe the frightening thing about all this amateurishness of the video is that it makes it seem so real (i.e. – it’s not just a Hollywood movie!)

I was traumatized for several days after watching this thing, and I’ve watched a lot of nasty stuff.

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11 thoughts on “Repost: Face Split Diving Accident Video”

  1. Even without seeing the pictures the cringe factor is off the charts! Just the word description penetrates your bones.

        1. How strong is your stomach? It’s not as bad as a beheading video. I kind of like to shock my system with stuff like this because I’ve killed so many of my feelings that I’m like a rock. So even if I get traumatized, I sort of like it because at least it’s a feeling. You follow? The ones that are really awful are where you see people being murdered in front of your eyes. This is more just out and out freaky!

          1. I had a guy on a motorcycle with no helmet smash into a metal pole street sign in my front yard (we lived on a corner) when I was a kid. I think he was doing about 100 miles an hour. His brain matter was stuck to the metal pole, and his blood by the quarts was all over the ground. I can never forget it. He was a neighbor from up the street.

  2. Visualizing a scared faceless boy is enough. It reads like a horror movie. We humans are lucky to be on top of the food chain. Nature is cruel. I could see another species using humans as guinea pigs in such a way, as if our skulls are nothing more than oyster shells.

      1. Yes, but I didn’t watch the full hospital scene. I’ve seen the smashed melon on the operating table, not the scared look. No way it’s a 9mm round. His head looked like a smashed jack-o-lantern on Halloween.

        The fall looked natural. The camera cuts off for a second, and man that is a lot of bright red blood in the ocean.

        With all the girls watching, it strikes me as a stupid thing a guy did for pussy. I do feel bad for him. After the first jump he’s on top of the world and in his prime surrounded by hot Lebanese chicks watching him, then the second jump totals the young man’s face.

        When I was a kid someone had their head open up after diving into a pool from a high platform. I imagine cliff divers die all the time. People fall off the Grand Canyon regularly.

        1. With all the girls watching, it strikes me as a stupid thing a guy did for pussy.

          That’s exactly what he’s doing. COD: Killed by pussy!

          Yes, but I didn’t watch the full hospital scene. I’ve seen the smashed melon on the operating table, not the scared look.

          How did you see his smashed head without watching the hospital scene? You saw a photo still of the scene?

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